AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -An out-of-body experience (OBE) is the apparent separation of consciousness from the body. About 45% of near-death experiencers report OBEs which involves them seeing and often hearing ongoing earthly events from a perspective that is apart, and usually above, their physical bodies.

Detailed explanation-2: -An altered state of consciousness is a change in one’s normal mental state as a result of trauma or accident or induced through meditation, drugs, some foods, etc. [1] The person is not unconscious.

Detailed explanation-3: -Near-death experience:an altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death (such as through cardiac arrest); often similar to drug-induced hallucinations. Monism:a philosophical belief that the mind and body are different aspects of the same thing.

Detailed explanation-4: -Conditions such as being knocked unconscious or being in a coma are not altered states of consciousness as the person involved has no control over their reality. Altered states of consciousness can occur from any of the following: Psychoactive drug/substance use.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sleep is a unique state of consciousness; it lacks full awareness but the brain is still active. People generally follow a “biological clock” that impacts when they naturally become drowsy, when they fall asleep, and the time they naturally awaken.